from as msnbc world headquarters, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news as we await a news conference from police in mississippi where a pilot is now in custody after threatening to crash his plane into a walmart. he circled the skies for hours and instead landed in a field in north mississippi. the faa says only the pilot was on board, no word yet confirming his identity. it started early today after the pilot took off from to pull a regional airport. the police got word that the pilot intended to crash intentionally, the walmart was closed. that plane flew haphazardly for hours before coming down in the field where police swarmed it and made the arrest. here s our affiliate as that drama unfolded. we have been able to confirm, we have at least confirmed to us that it has crashed, that does not mean they reach the crash location. one of the difficult things about figuring out something like that is just how fast the plane was moving. at its lowest poi
propellers, which is what this aircraft has. this took some aviation savvy to be able to do this. the person that stole the airplane obviously know what they re doing with regards to fly an airplane. and, jeff, i ask you about how quickly the situation would be becoming aware to people who are monitoring the skies like that? i presume there was a control tower, but in the small municipal airports, there may not even be a control tower. at one point with that plane become known to be a problem, to have an issue like this? i did little research since we last spoke. this tupelo airport does have a control tower. it s a contract tower. the faa contracts it with non faa employees to operate it. it operates beginning at 6:00 in the morning. if this pilot took the airplane at 5:30 in the morning, then there wouldn t be anyone in the
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